MTC Week #6 - 3-2-1...We're Live!

FEB 9, 2014 - What a rush singing with the choir today for Music and the Spoken Word! Can't quite describe all the feelings I was having. Nervous, humble, excited. . .and always wondering when the camera was coming my way (which apparently it did a few times). Overall, I was just grateful once again for being able to sing with this choir. I was praying the most that my testimony, fused with the music and lyrics of today's numbers, would touch someone's heart and inspire them to be just a little better.

A special thanks to Jenn, Rebekah, and Sarah who were there to watch (my other kids were supporting from home), and for numerous texts, emails, and pictures posted by other family members. You guys are the best. 

The week leading up to today's performance included our regular Chorale rehearsal on Tuesday and then Thursday's choir school was replaced with singing with the regular choir so we could prepare for today. Most of us had not yet sung through three of the four numbers so we were glad to get a chance to go through them at least once or twice. I have a feeling this is how it is though...You get just enough time to go over it a time or two and then you have to be ready to perform it. 

While today was sort of a cloud 9 experience, it was tiring as well. The routine each Sunday

morning is to start at 7:25 with prayer and announcements from the Choir president. Then we start rehearsing music until 8:40 when we do a complete taped run-through of the program. After that, we get a ten minute break while Bro. Newell gives the audience some instructions. We come back at 9:20, and then the stage manager announces when we have 30 seconds. "30...20...15.." he calls out, and then with our director giving the downbeat, cameras roll and we're live!  Once the program concludes, we stay for additional rehearsal until 11:30. Quite the morning.


Until next time, God be with you!

PS: You can check out Feb 9th's Music and the Spoken word HERE. 

PPS: You can check out a cool behind-the-scenes look of Music and the Spoken Word--showing its history, how it's put together, the amount of work that goes into each week, etc. Quite fascinating if I do say so myself!